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At the beginning of 2020, due to financial constraints and staff capacity, the GlobeMed network went through a resize. We committed to maintaining all of the chapters at minority serving institutions and historically Black colleges and universities. However, some of them asked to pause operations, as this decision happened as the COVID-19 pandemic was starting and many students didn’t know what to expect from their universities. As the situation, both at GlobeMed and at universities, has changed, we've been supporting students at those institutions to re-found their chapters, after a hiatus.

Elvira Diouf and Denaysia Arroyo are students at North Carolina Central University, an HBCU in Durham, North Carolina. They're working to get the GlobeMed at NCCU chapter restarted this year and talk about what the process has been like, what their hopes are for their chapter, and the benefits of attending an HBCU.

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Kelsey Glotz is a bedside nurse working as a beside nurse at a children's hospital in the neurology, neurosurgery, and endocrinology unit after graduating from Loyola University in Chicago. During her time as a part of GlobeMed at Loyola University, her chapter was partnered with Jambi Huasi, and organization that brings indigenous healing practices as well as Western medicine practices to the communities they serve. Kelsey talks about her experience as Director of Community Building for her chapter, advocating for medical decisions, and how she decided to have a home birth for her second child.

To learn more about some of the things mentioned in the episode, check out the links below.


The Business of Being Born
Planned Home Birth from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Find Jambi Huasi on Facebook and Instagram

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Sumita Strander was very involved in the GlobeMed at Dartmouth College chapter during her undergraduate studies, majoring in Medical Anthropology. When she worked on her thesis about dementia care for Indian elders, she drew on the lessons she had learned about humility from GlobeMed. Now, she's a medical student at Harvard University and still applying the skills she gained from working in partnership to working with patients. Communications Intern Caitriona Greene spoke with Sumita about this, her motivations for doing this work, and advice for others on this career path.


Kachin Women's Association
Cultural Humility vs. Cultural Competence — and Why Providers Need Both

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Kaleb Whitfield, GlobeMed at Georgia State University, and Ngozi Elobuike, GlobeMed at Howard University, both attended minority serving institutions, thought they wanted to become medical doctors, and had their lives changed from their GlobeMed experience. Communications Intern Caitriona Greene talked with Kaleb and Ngozi about what it was like to be a founding member of a chapter, how they changed their career paths, and the value of a GlobeMed experience.


GlobeMed at Georgia State University on Instagram
GlobeMed at Howard University on Instagram
Art & Global Health Center Africa
Nancholi Youth Organization

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Alex Moran, GlobeMed at the George Washington University alumnus, is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. He's built a career around global research with a particular focus on HIV. He talks with Communications Intern Caitriona Greene about how GlobeMed gave him a foundation in working with local organizations, finding a passion for global and public health, and crucial skills he's picked up along the way.

One of the skills he mentioned was learning a statistical programming language, such as R or Python. Codecademy is a free, online source where you can learn those languages along with many others.

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The 2022 GlobeMed at University of Colorado, Boulder's Grassroots On-Site Work (GROW) interns were the first people from their chapter to visit their partner in-person since 2019. Shreya Sharma, Jeremiah Diaz, and Grace Matsey talk with Communications Intern Caitriona Greene about what their days were like in rural Nepal, how they worked together as a team, and what some of their biggest lessons were from their experience.

Check out GlobeMed at University of Colorado, Boulder's Instagram.

Learn more about Himalayan Healthcare and their work in Nepal.

To learn more about GlobeMed's impact, check out the Impact page on our website.

You can find GlobeMed on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Medium.

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